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Interests:People; religions; cultures; local customs; beliefs; and a gold nugget’s ability to link them all, from the very beginning of recorded time. Oh, and radio controlled aircraft too. Really like/hate crashing something it took a lot of money and months to build.

I did the same thing a couple yrs back, due to minelab not supporting/repairing 4000 anymore, went to the 4500 a new one. Then I sold off the stock coils and kept the 11" dd, bought a 14x9 evo and a 14" round elite. Very satisified with the extended depth of the elite and evo coils.

I have a 4500 bought about a year after it came out. Had issues with it after awhile and after a trips to Minelab for repair to no avail, sent to Woody, he found and repaired the problem and did a mod at the same time. Impressed how quiet it ran.

A couple of years ago, sent in for the latest mod, adjustable front gain. Last year was tough on me prospecting, so hadn’t had a lot of chances to test. A friend who had his 5000 modded came down to Quartzsite and helped me set it up. Picked up a test ‘nugget’ at 16”.

Last month at Dome Rock, at a get together, using a ‘tool’ Patrick designed, I planted a .5 gram piece of lead at 16”. My modded 4500 sounded off a couple of inches high, Bill Southern’s modded 3500 also sounded off well. A stock 5000 could not hear it. A famous detectorist from Las Vegas scrubbed his 7000 over the target and could barely hear it.